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mandasarah.livejournal.comI'm asking here because I've tried every on-line search engine and my other group of on-line book lovers (sheroescentral.com) failed me utterly.
There's a book I read when I was eleven. Which means it was published before 1995. I'm pretty sure it was set in colonial America, but not 100%.
The main character was a girl. I think she started out pretty young but by the end was old enough to engage in a romance. This girl (who's name I've not the slightest clue about. In fact, that's true of all the characters.) was quite clumsy. I think the book started off with her in bed because she'd hurt herself and then she tried to get up to do something and ended up breaking the rod that held the cooking pot. And I seem to remember a goose around this part.
Girl lived with her mother and they boarded the (male) school teacher. Don't really remember much else about that part.
There was a boy. He was an outcast. I don't remember if it was because he was part Native American or had been raised by Native Americans or if it was because his parents were dead or some combination of all three or something else altogether.
(Paris Hilton's song just came on the radio and I don't hate it. Working graveyard shift is getting to me.)
Boy and Girl were friends. Boy went away (I think for a long time). When he came back, Girl feed him blueberries (and I think this is why I associate it with Walk Two Moons, but I'm not sure.)
At one point, Girl is running through a storm and falls, hurting her knee. She is saved/helped by a rich old man she is terrified of, because when he was young he killed/accidentally killed another girl. But he turns out not to be a bad guy and Girl starts going to see him and helping him. The old man's punishment had been deferred until he was older and the night that it was supposed to be carried out, Girl is with him, waiting. When the appointed time pasts and no one comes for the old man, they both realize that everybody had forgotten. Girl takes from around his neck the silk scarf/cord that the old man has worn in remembrance of his crime/punishment and takes to wearing it in her hair.
I'm pretty sure that at the end of the book Girl and Boy become involved, but again, not 100%.
Does this sound even vaguely familiar to anyone? Please? It's been bugging me for literally years. Anyone who knows the title or author would have my undying gratitude.
There's a book I read when I was eleven. Which means it was published before 1995. I'm pretty sure it was set in colonial America, but not 100%.
The main character was a girl. I think she started out pretty young but by the end was old enough to engage in a romance. This girl (who's name I've not the slightest clue about. In fact, that's true of all the characters.) was quite clumsy. I think the book started off with her in bed because she'd hurt herself and then she tried to get up to do something and ended up breaking the rod that held the cooking pot. And I seem to remember a goose around this part.
Girl lived with her mother and they boarded the (male) school teacher. Don't really remember much else about that part.
There was a boy. He was an outcast. I don't remember if it was because he was part Native American or had been raised by Native Americans or if it was because his parents were dead or some combination of all three or something else altogether.
(Paris Hilton's song just came on the radio and I don't hate it. Working graveyard shift is getting to me.)
Boy and Girl were friends. Boy went away (I think for a long time). When he came back, Girl feed him blueberries (and I think this is why I associate it with Walk Two Moons, but I'm not sure.)
At one point, Girl is running through a storm and falls, hurting her knee. She is saved/helped by a rich old man she is terrified of, because when he was young he killed/accidentally killed another girl. But he turns out not to be a bad guy and Girl starts going to see him and helping him. The old man's punishment had been deferred until he was older and the night that it was supposed to be carried out, Girl is with him, waiting. When the appointed time pasts and no one comes for the old man, they both realize that everybody had forgotten. Girl takes from around his neck the silk scarf/cord that the old man has worn in remembrance of his crime/punishment and takes to wearing it in her hair.
I'm pretty sure that at the end of the book Girl and Boy become involved, but again, not 100%.
Does this sound even vaguely familiar to anyone? Please? It's been bugging me for literally years. Anyone who knows the title or author would have my undying gratitude.
